Now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time, Susan Hill’s I’m the King of the Castle is an unflinching and deeply unsettling study of childhood cruelty at its most extreme. When Charles Kingshaw and his mother move into Warings — the large, rambling Victorian house where young Edmund Hooper lives with his widowed father — Hooper immediately begins a campaign of subtle, relentless persecution against his new companion. Charles fights back in the woods, but he knows the truth: Hooper will always win the sympathy of the adults around them, and something far worse is still to come.
ISBN 13: 9780241970782
Author: Susan Hill
